Bodel / Olyan Household and Family Religion in Antiquity

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0298-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Ancient World: Comparative Histories

The first book to explore the religious dimensions of the familyand the household in ancient Mediterranean and West Asianantiquity.
* Advances our understanding of household and familial religion,as opposed to state-sponsored or civic temple cults
* Reconstructs domestic and family religious practices in Egypt,Greece, Rome, Israel, Mesopotamia, Ugarit, Emar, and Philistia
* Explores many household rituals, such as providing forancestral spirits, and petitioning of a household's patron deitiesor of spirits associated with the house itself
* Examines lifecycle rituals - from pregnancy and birth tomaturity, old age, death, and beyond
* Looks at religious practices relating to the household bothwithin the home itself and other spaces, such as at extramuraltombs and local sanctuaries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bodel, John

Olyan, Saul M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures vii
Notes on Contributors x
Series Editor's Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Map xvi
1 Introduction 1
John Bodel and Saul M. Olyan
2 Theorizing the Religion of Ancient Households and Families5
Stanley K. Stowers
3 Family Religion in Second Millennium West Asia (Mesopotamia,Emar, Nuzi) 20
Karel van der Toorn
4 The Integration of Household and Community Religion in AncientSyria 37
Daniel E. Fleming
5 Family, Household, and Local Religion at Late Bronze AgeUgarit 60
Theodore J. Lewis
6 Family Religion in Ancient Israel and its Surroundings89
Rainer Albertz
7 Family Religion in Israel and the Wider Levant of the FirstMillennium bce 113
Saul M. Olyan
8 Household Religion, Family Religion, and Women's Religion inAncient Israel 127
Susan Ackerman
9 Ashdod and the Material Remains of Domestic Cults in thePhilistine Coastal Plain 159
Rüdiger Schmitt
10 Household Religion in Ancient Egypt 171
Robert K. Ritner
11 Household and Domestic Religion in Ancient Egypt 197
Barbara S. Lesko
12 Household Religion in Ancient Greece 210
Christopher A. Faraone
13 Family Matters: Domestic Religion in Classical Greece229
Deborah Boedeker
14 Cicero's Minerva, Penates, and the Mother of theLares: An Outline of Roman Domestic Religion 248
John Bodel
15 Comparative Perspectives 276
John Bodel and Saul M. Olyan
Bibliography 283
Index 314

Über Autor(innen)

John Bodel is Professor of Classics and History at BrownUniversity. He writes about Roman social and cultural history,Latin epigraphy, and Latin literature of the Empire. His booksinclude Roman Brick Stamps in the Kelsey Museum (1983),Graveyards and Groves: A Study of the Lex Lucerina (1994),Epigraphic Evidence: Ancient History from Inscriptions(editor, 2001), and Dediche sacre nel mondo greco-romano:Diffusione, funzioni, tipologie (edited with Mika Kajava,2008).
Saul M. Olyan is Samuel Ungerleider Jr. Professor ofJudaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies, BrownUniversity. He is the author of Asherah and the Cult of Yahwehin Israel (1988), A Thousand Thousands Served Him: Exegesisand the Naming of Angels in Ancient Judaism (1993), Ritesand Rank: Hierarchy in Biblical Representations of Cult (2000),Biblical Mourning: Ritual and Social Dimensions (2004), andDisability in the Hebrew Bible: Interpreting Mental and PhysicalDifferences (2008).